The network died. The machines didn't.
Abandoned infrastructure. Still racked, still wired, still listening.
After 2,190 days of silence a carrier appeared on the dead frequency. The handshake was accepted. 8,888 machines still registered. The resync has begun.
The whole collection shares one progress bar. Everyone's sync combined wakes the machines, one by one. Every unlock: new art, new relics, a distribution wave. Even a wallet that never opens the site pushes the bar.